Directions: Write a poem about the weather. You can either follow Carl Sandburg's form or have fun creating one of your own!

Title: Form of Nature chosenLine #1: Title + (how it arrives or begins as the animal would arrive)Line #2: Tell what it doesLine #3: And how it does itLine #4: And where it isLine #5: Tell how it leaves (as the animal would leave)

Student Example:

THUNDERThunder comes in loudLike the majestic roar of a lion.It answers the callOf lighteningBy striking fear into people.Away, somewhere in the sky,Somewhere in the unknown,An unknown voice,And then leaves without a traceOf its existenceExcept in peoples' stories.---Emma Thompson (Grade 8)